The US Commerce Department forced Anthropic to pull its Fable 5 and Mythos 5 AI models, marking the first retroactive export control on a live AI product.

The Commerce Department instructed Anthropic to suspend access to Fable 5 and Mythos 5 for any foreign national, which Anthropic said requires disabling the models entirely.

AI giant Anthropic says it has taken its latest artificial intelligence models, known as Fable 5 and Mythos 5, offline to comply with a directive from the Trump administration to…